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Huntsville

Huntsville proper noun: a city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.

Proper noun

Huntsville

  1. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.
    • Sidewalks in Huntsville were mostly decorative. People drove their SUVs to grocery stores two blocks away, their air-conditioning on full blast.2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 103
    • His desire to shed light on the proliferation of license plate readers in his neighborhood in Huntsville, Ala., this year spurred an idea for a crowdsourced database where people across the world can upload the locations of the readers.2024 November 14, Nathan Solis, “Are automated license plate readers in your city? Here’s how to find out”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2024
  2. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Arkansas, United States.
  3. A community in Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Schuyler County, Illinois, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Indiana, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Reno County, Kansas, United States.
  8. A city, the county seat of Randolph County, Missouri, United States.
  9. An unincorporated community in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.
  10. A village in Logan County, Ohio, United States.
  11. A town, the county seat of Scott County, Tennessee, United States.
  12. A city, the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.
    • There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he...2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones)
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  1. A town in Weber County, Utah, United States.
  2. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
  3. A former community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States.
  4. A town in Muskoka district municipality, Ontario, Canada.

Origin of Huntsville

From Hunt + -s- + -ville.

Questions about Huntsville

What does Huntsville mean?
Huntsville means a city, the county seat of Madison County, Alabama, United States.
What part of speech is Huntsville?
Huntsville is a proper noun.

Words near Huntsville in the dictionary

  1. huntsmen
  2. huntspeople
  3. huntsperson
  4. huntspersons
  5. Huntspill
  6. Huntsville
  7. huntswoman
  8. huntswomen
  9. Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell
  10. hunty
  11. Huntzinger

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